Chomsky: America’s Culture of Fear

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there is a very class conscious

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unusually class conscious very powerful

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business community always fighting a

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bitter class war never relentless and

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unusually powerful that’s one of the

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reasons for the difference between the

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United States and Europe and you just

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can’t study the United States without

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paying attention to that they have

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overwhelming power over the political

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system they basically Shrek frame what

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happens in the media without just even

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introducing that factor you’re just not

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discussing the country so doesn’t matter

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what the abstract theories say and there

are other things like that there other

things about the United States which

really have to be considered seriously

it’s a very frightened country and

always has been back to colonial days

and some good scholarship on this but

there’s a reason why people didn’t laugh

when Reagan

strapped on his cowboy boots and said

we’re under threat from Nicaragua from

Grenada you know so I’m saying whoever

it’s a frightened country and always has

been and you’ve got to pay attention to

that you know there’s a cultural effect

and there are other basic things that

have to be considered if you want to

talk seriously about the country and and

roll’s it it just wasn’t his interest